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First phone with Google Android software expected this year.
Some skepticism is aired: This will be the first of many Android phones, and it won't have the benefit of being designed soup-to-nuts by one d....

An important legal victory for the free software movement.
Lessig:
In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licenses such as the [Creative Commons] licenses set conditions (rather than coven....

John McCain's new technology plan will be released to day (we'll link it when it goes live).
WSJ:
The plan, dubbed "John McCain and American Innovation"...will call for a 10% tax credit on wages paid t....

As the debate rages on over IT job availability, recruiting and retaining top talent comes into sharper focus. But how good are IT leaders at recognizing their most promising underlings? Attracting and ret....

Big numbers projected for online advertising and video.
US online ad spending is expected to nearly double, to $45 billion, by 2012; that would take it from the current 8.8% of total ad spending to 13.7%....

Twitter's lack of enterprise steam could be instructive for emerging techs. We said it before. And we said it again. And for good measure, we beat it over your head: Twitter isn't ready for the enterprise.....

More on the Obama text-message campaign:
[A]nnouncing Mr. Obama's running mate by text message has little to do with proclaiming the selection and everything to do with getting out the vote on Election Da....

Last year I reported that mobile technology was "notable for its absence" in next-gen political campaigns.
"It should be maybe the most important technology of 2008, but it isn't," said Republican consulta....

With Georgia "cyberlocked" by Russian attacks on its net infrastructure, sympathetic countries and companies are helping out.
Estonia, the victim of what may have been the world's first state-sponsored c....

The bust of an international credit-card fraud ring makes the world a marginally safer place to do business -- but also reveals the scope of the challenges you face in trying to keep your data safe.
NYT:....

"The Georgian embassy in the U.K. has accused forces within Russia of launching a coordinated cyberattack against Georgian Web sites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South O....

Not since the Terminator got crunched by that machine press has Arnold Schwarzenegger been so abused by retro-technology.
Schwarzenegger wants to slash the pay of state workers in California, but it's rea....